Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

Each season I try to incorporate something new that corresponds to the timing and the trends in everyday fashion.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

That's something that I just can't underestimate the importance of, the staff continuity. I really think that the players feed off the coaches.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.